Maritime history

Tropicality is a centuries-old Western discourse that treats otherness and the exotic in binary - 'us' and 'them' - terms.

Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as the longest-serving President of the Royal Society (1778-1820).

Edited from Contemporary Records.

World-wide maritime trade has been the essential driver of wealth-creation, economic progress and global human contact.

Friar Domingo Navarrete, A Dominican missionary, travelled round the world and spent the best part of his life (1658-69) in China, where he became a determined opponent of the evangelical methods of the 'Jesuit mandarins'.

The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.

On the Seven Seas is a set of wargames rules covering the high adventure and low morals of the world of the pirate.

Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines the ocean-space and our knowledge and perceptions of it.

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This classic study examines the deployment of U.

The volume contains the following accounts, edited, with an introduction: Narrative of the voyage of Abd-er-Razzak, Ambassador from Shah Rukh, A.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions.

Quests for cod, herring and other sea fish had profound impacts on medieval Europe.

The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies.

Being an island nation, the ocean is never too far from Sri Lanka.

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The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s.

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During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO.

A record of the Naval Brigades' extraordinary exploits and achievements during eleven 'Wars of the Empire' in the 19th centuryThere is a view that, in Victorian times, whilst the Army was engaged in a series of wars, the Navy enjoyed a peaceful existence - however, this was not the case.

Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe.

Un viaje al reino de los maresEl mar es fascinante y misterioso a partes iguales, y Alessandro Vanoli nos guía en el apasionante relato de cuatro mil millones de años de historia para, tras navegar entre criaturas, abismos y civilizaciones, llegar a los mares del presente.

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "e;global trade"e; in the first millennium CE.

On 13 March 2017, the Rescue 116 crew of Capt.

The greatest undersea adventure of the 20th century.

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript 'Booke', which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subsequently entered his journals of his voyages and correspondence relating to them.

The universe of actors involved in international cybersecurity includes both state actors and semi- and non-state actors, including technology companies, state-sponsored hackers, and cybercriminals.

'Translated from the Original and Unpublished Manuscript, with a Biographical Notice and Notes', by Alice Wilmere.

Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports.

Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment.

There was a time in history when the sea was as important as the land for defining a country's social and cultural identity.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.

Explores the history of the US Navy's 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy.

A new and enlarged edition, with an Introduction and Notes.

La presente obra es el resultado de una década de investigación en archivos de distintos países, así como de un exhaustivo análisis de la historiografía antigua y contemporánea sobre el sistema naval hispánico.

This volume brings together, translated and edited by R.

Translated from the Catalan.

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Written 1580-90, first published at Seville in 1594, translated with notes and an introduction.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds and no wonder.

Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840.

A uniquely detailed study of a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, before being sunk at Midway.

In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it Queen Anne's Revenge.

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